The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-11-03
manitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1887.


lace That Is nail man ana NAN dOp lives
near Oil City. He or it goes upon all
fours.
DR. j. H. Hall, of jacksonville, Fla,
has offered TO give 100, 600 acres of pine
land in Georgia to evicted Irish
families.
Many of the principal streets in the
central part of Paris are having their
former stone pavements changed to
wooden ones.
"A bridge ticket given away with
efery suit o clo'es," is the tempting
bait offered by Chatham street. New
York, clothiers to passing countrymen.
1t is estimated that the discoveries,
inventions and compounds patented
each year in the United States and
never amounting to anything cost So
600, 600.
Congregationalism is growing in
Pennsylvania. 1t has now ninety-five
churches in that state and has made
net gain of 80 per cent. in church mem
bership since 1890.
North Carolina is sparsely settled,
and it is strange fact that although
it is three tin rs as large as Massachu.
sets, its largest city, Wilmington,
boasts of only 10000 inhabitants.
English railroads do most of the
carting, collecting, and delivery of
freight at the freighters door. The
Midland has in constant employment
not less than thirty-two hundred
horses.
A photographer has succeeded in
taking an instantaneous picture of the
fight of curved ball thrown by a
$40, 900 pitcher. 1t is said to resem.
bic procession of inebriated cork
screws.
By means of an air gun Prof. c. L.
Mees has found that to drive straws
into pine boards and hickory bark, as
is often done by tornadoes, a velocity
of from 120 to Us miles an hour is
| necessary.
Missouri has harvested this year
more abundant crops than any other
| state in the nation. South Missouri
has still more than half a million acres
of good government land awaiting the
coming of settlers.
A German brass finisher who COM
| mitted suicide in New York board
ing house. left a note for the landlady,
SAYING that he was sorry to trouble her,
| but the weather compelled him to kill
himself indoors.
4 book is now in circulation entitled
..uo., or, Story of Window Curtains"
ottrihr+o, to II. Rider Haggard. That
aeIltI toIe "raphs from England
that he chad notn.. /" no Will
window curtains
A bill for pensoning workmeG III
their old age in Germany contemplates
a tax of marks per annum on all,
estimated at Z ,257, O0O marks. Work
men over 30 years of age when the bill
is passed will be excluded.
Arizona is about to operate dam,
which in magnitude sUrpasses any
thing in the country. The reservoir
will store 10000 100000 gallons of
water for irrigating thousands of acres
of placer and grazing lands.
A steamship agent estimates that
Americans spend $50, 000.00 a year in
Europe. He estimated the number of
Americans who cross the ocean
annually at about 100000. The cost OF
each one will average say $500.
A large pelican, with bill as long
as q coal-dealer, was captured near
Crete, Neb., last week. 1t measured
six feet from tip to tip of wings, five
feet from the tip of its bill to the tip of
its tail, and weighed twelve pounds.
The Russian adventures known by
the nickname of .sThe Golden Hand"
has been condemned by the tribunal
OF Moscow to transportation for life
to Siberia. This extraordinary woman
has been married no less than sixteen
times.
The fish in the Arkansas river
appear to be affected with some strange
disease. Many of them are dying and
rise to the surface, and it is said those
caught with hook or net spoil within
few hours after being taken from the
waters
The temperance women of England
have been getting up jubilee
memorial to the queen in the shape OF
petition that the bar-roOms be closed
on Sunday. 1t now weighs several
hundred pounds and contains 100000
signatures.
The people of Siberia buy their milk
frozen and for a convenience it
is allowed to frtsze about stick
which comes as handle to carry it by.
The milkman may leave one chunk or
two chunks, as the case may be, at the
house al his customers.
A Wisconsin Norwegian, who is I'M
doubtedly the most unpoetical person
IN the United States, sold his wife for
hog and bought her back for a cali
and two shotes. If the wife were to
sell him we should suppose a yallar
dog would be about his market value
Mrs. Gen. L. r. r. Cobb of Atlanta,
Ga, has the original draft of the con
tederate constitution as it came from
the committee VINO drafted it. 1t is said
that Photographer Sarony of New
York owns the constitution as finally
adopted by the confederate congress.
Perhaps one of the most primitive OF
independent kingdoms is the little
island of Johanna, in the Comorc
group. The sultan boards any ship
that may call there, and endeavors to
secure the washing Tor his wives, while
the prime minister peddles cocoanuts
and bananas.
The floating island on Lake Der.
wentwater, England, has again made
its appearance. 1t came to the sur.
foce OF the water year or two age
near Lodare after complete submersion
for nearly three years. The cause OF
the phenomenon has never been salts.
faetorily explained.
A Jackson (Mich.) justice of the
peace owns an intelligent spaniel that
is cunning. Whenever he is wander
ing abroad without his muzzle and
spies an officer he HES himself to the
nearest alley and puts tin can over
his nose, keeping it there until the
policmane passes by and the danger is
over.